Dick's Sporting Goods Gives Middle Finger To Customers

[AAAintheBeltway]

https://twitter.com/DICKS?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

The management of Dicks, a failing retailer of shoddy sports equipment, has gone full CNN, announcing in a fit of virtue signaling that it will no longer sell AR style rifles but also calling for the full anti-gun agenda to be enacted. They now demand that congress ban "assault weapons", which until today they sold, hi cap mags, etc etc. The only thing missing from their list is a total ban on ownership of self-defense firearms. Perhaps they are waiting for David Hogg to give them some guidance on that.

Other companies like Kelloggs which have gone this route felt the sting of customer boycotts. This probably will not affect Dick's too much, since no one shops there anyway. Anyway, you should add them to the places, eg Walmart, that you will never buy ammo from. If they think the guns should be banned, why would they sell the ammo? In Walmart's case, it is because they sell a lot of it. Virtue has a price tag you know.

 

[Slartibartfast]

Support sign: I like Dicks.
Opposition sign: Dicks suck.

Either way its comedy gold.

Virtue has a price tag for AAA, because he is white trash.

 

[UsualName]

Good job, Dick’s sporting goods. Someone there cares about their immortal soul.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Good job, Dick’s sporting goods. Someone there cares about their immortal soul.

Then why do they still sell ammo and other deadly weapons like shotguns? And big scary knives?

 

[Tsing Tao]

Then why do they still sell ammo and other deadly weapons like shotguns? And big scary knives?

Who buys ammo at Dicks? I mean, unless you're looking to pay 40% more than bulkammo and other places online.

Who really cares what an irrelevant, financially distressed retailer does anyway? Someone there thinks this political stunt will get them some PR and folks will actually start shopping there again.

 

[UsualName]

Then why do they still sell ammo and other deadly weapons like shotguns? And big scary knives?

So the question is really where do we draw the line and this is alway a quandary. For example, we draw the line of childhood at 18 years old. Dicks has drawn the line of being a responsible retailer of firearms at AR 15 style firearms.

I say good, you say bad but it doesn’t change we need to draw the line somewhere. Currently, it’s machine guns. I don’t think that line is effective in ensuring a reasonable amount of public safety considering we have regular school massacres with AR 15s.

Again, good for Dicks, but I wouldn’t knock Dicks if they returned to selling AR 15s if some background and age regulations were instituted by our government. But, how can really in good conscience sell these weapons knowing they are the weapon of choice in so many of these incidents? In my opinion, the money isn’t worth it.

 

[Slartibartfast]

So the question is really where do we draw the line and this is alway a quandary. For example, we draw the line of childhood at 18 years old. Dicks has drawn the line of being a responsible retailer of firearms at AR 15 style firearms.

I say good, you say bad but it doesn’t change we need to draw the line somewhere. Currently, it’s machine guns. I don’t think that line is effective in ensuring a reasonable amount of public safety considering we have regular school massacres with AR 15s.

Again, good for Dicks, but I wouldn’t knock Dicks if they returned to selling AR 15s if some background and age regulations were instituted by our government. But, how can really in good conscience sell these weapons knowing they are the weapon of choice in so many of these incidents? In my opinion, the money isn’t worth it.

Plus the sheer size of the weapons industry in the US is crazy. Like pharmaceutical corporations selling Oxycontin, AR-15 variant makers are just trying to shift product without conscience.

Who also has had a batshit gun culture (illegal)? Brazil, and they also have way too many gun manufacturers trying to stay in business.

 

[gwb-trading]

Who buys ammo at Dicks? I mean, unless you're looking to pay 40% more than bulkammo and other places online.

Who really cares what an irrelevant, financially distressed retailer does anyway? Someone there thinks this political stunt will get them some PR and folks will actually start shopping there again.

My take on this is merchants can choose which items they stock and which they don't stock. If customers don't like their selection then the customers can go somewhere else for their purchases.

My immediate thinking is -- "who goes and buys guns & ammo at Dicks, their prices are far higher than other local gun stores".

I don't think not stocking AR-15s will hurt Dicks much; nor will any protest to not shop their by gun enthusiasts have very much impact to their top/bottom line.

This does -- however -- bring into the question of merchants who customize products. Can a merchant refuse to customize & sell a product for a customer - for example a cake from a local bakery for a gay wedding, or a cake from the Walmart bakery with the southern flag on it - while an ISIS cake is OK? Both of these have real world legal cases associated with them. Where to draw the line of what a merchant is allowed to limit.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

I don't think not stocking AR-15s will hurt Dicks much; nor will any protest to not shop their by gun enthusiasts have very much impact to their top/bottom line.

I'm not so sure. They were only selling them at their Field and Stream stores, which obviously cater to sportsmen, not soccer moms.

Basically, conservatives can sit back and take hit after hit from the left, rationalizing that private businesses have the right to do what they want, or they can fight back. You can ask Delta Airlines how that works.

 

[Frederick Foresight]

rationalizing that private businesses have the right to do what they want

You're already quite adept at that.